Few men are admired by their servants.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Our mind is supposed to be a well-planned system.

You can’t fall in love that fast. Not real love. Real love takes time, like a fine wine. Real love takes years. Not days. Not weeks.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.